simon tanner: how can we make the health legacy of the games lasting for londoners?

How can we make lasting health and well being for Londoners the legacy of the Games?

Dr Simon TannerRegional Director of Public Health for London

11 October 2012

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• Ambulance cover at sports venues

• 3 designated ‘Games Family’ hospitals

• Free healthcare for Games Family

• NHS volunteers• Public health surveillance• Well tested emergency response

capability• ‘Business as usual’ service

levels for local • People and visitors • Health legacy

NHS responsibilities as set out in the Bid Commitments and Host City Contract

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Our approach to Health Legacy

• Consistent focus that ran through all stages and workstreams of the programme – from planning to delivery.

• Challenge: how could an elite sporting festival lead to a legacy of health improvement?– Participation in sport and physical

activity is good for health and reduces healthcare costs

– Evidence suggests the benefits won’t appear without a strategy

– Health inequalities in London meant our strategy had to be broader than sport to make a difference

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Our strategy: Go London

“Use the once in a lifetime opportunity for hosting the Games as a catalyst for generating a sustainable increase in physical activity participation and for promoting healthier lifestyles among Londoners up to and beyond 2012”

Dame Ruth Carnall, Chief ExecutiveNHS London

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Outline of the Go London Health Legacy Framework

• Physical activity for health and wellbeing

• Child health• Partnerships• In addition to NHS systems

and infrastructure

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Achievements to date

• 2009 Go London legacy strategy developed.• 250 local health and wellbeing programmes associated with the 2012

Games across London, for people of all ages, health status and disability.• Pan London and national coverage and collaborations with commercial

orgs.• Strategy in development to mainstream health benefits in the new health

system. • Games also used as a catalyst for longer term improvement to

strengthen systems and process in service provision.

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What next?

• Continuing to work with partners to ensure effective projects are sustained to bring about lasting health benefits.

• Cabinet Committee on legacy re-launched, led by Maria Miller, Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport, with Lord Coe as legacy ambassador.

• Government departments prepare 4 year legacy plan.

• NHSL tailoring approach to implement health improvement plan for London to include:

- supporting local programmes, in particular the east London ‘convergence’ programme.

- securing commercial sponsorship,- developing the Sir Ludwig Guttmann health

and wellbeing centre as beacon for health legacy,

- encouraging the NHS and its patients to become healthier.

• Annual legacy Directory to be published till 2016.

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